Schools in Reading

Choosing a School in Reading

Reading has two grammar schools: Kendrick School and Reading School. Each sets its own entrance test: Kendrick School tests in September of Year 6, and Reading School tests in July at the end of Year 5, so check each school's dates. All Year 7 applications, grammar schools included, go through Reading Borough Council. Earley and Woodley are in Wokingham Borough, which handles admissions for its own schools.

In Reading, the average primary school had 64% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at KS2 (England: 63%), and the average secondary had 56% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in English and maths at GCSE (England: 46%).

Primary Schools in Reading

The map opens on a two-mile circle around the centre. Primary schools inside it include the following; ages, distances and single-sex status come from the same data as the map.

• Civitas AcademyAges 4-11, 0.1 miles from the centre
• Oxford Road Community SchoolAges 3-11, 0.3 miles from the centre
• E P Collier Primary SchoolAges 3-11, 0.4 miles from the centre
• Coley Primary SchoolAges 3-11, 0.5 miles from the centre
• All Saints Church of England Aided Infant SchoolAges 5-7, 0.5 miles from the centre

Secondary Schools in Reading

Secondary schools inside the map's opening view include both grammar schools:

• River AcademyAges 11-18, 0.7 miles from the centre
• Kendrick SchoolAges 11-18, Girls, Grammar (selective), 0.8 miles from the centre
• The WREN SchoolAges 11-19, 1.1 miles from the centre
• Reading SchoolAges 11-18, Boys, Grammar (selective), 1.2 miles from the centre
• Blessed Hugh Faringdon Catholic SchoolAges 11-18, 1.3 miles from the centre

How Are Averages Calculated?

When you open a school, its results show a comparison such as "+12% vs avg". The average is the mean of the figures for every English state school in our data that reports that measure, each school counted once. For primary schools (14,923 with KS2 results), the average share of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths is 63%, with average scaled scores of 105.6 in reading and 104.6 in maths. For secondary schools (3,274 with GCSE results), the average share of pupils getting grade 5 or above in English and maths is 46%, grade 4 or above 65%, and the average Attainment 8 score is 46.6. Because each school counts once whatever its size, these are school averages, not the share of all pupils in England.

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